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Date:
2015-10-14

Author Name: Laura Waters

Source: NJLeftbehind

The Facts about Newark’s Charter School Expansion

Andrew Martin, former teacher and current director of special projects at KIPPNJ, drills down on student achievement data in Newark. He’s honest about former superintendent Cami Anderson’s office’s ham-handed outreach – a stakeholder remarked, “It’s as if you guys are going out of your way to foment the most opposition possible to what you’re doing” – but unbowed by the fierce anti-charter rhetoric that has led to child-unfriendly proposals like a charter school moratorium.